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23*bbf21555SRichard Lowe
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29*bbf21555SRichard LoweConfiguration files for syseventd(8).
307c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate
317c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gateThese files are not intended to be edited and any changes made
327c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gatewill not be preserved across upgrades.
337c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate
347c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gateThe format for file names in this directory is:
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367c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate	<vendor>,[<publisher>,][<class>,[<subclass>,]]sysevent.conf
377c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate
387c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gateFiles with a suffix other than ',sysevent.conf' are ignored.
397c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate
407c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gateAfter making a change to a file in this directory, restart the
417c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gatesyseventd daemon by issuing:
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437c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate	pkill -HUP syseventd
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457c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate
467c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gateThe format for each line in a sysevent.conf file is:
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487c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate	<class> <subclass> <vendor> <publisher> <user> <reserved1>
497c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate		<reserved2> <path> <arguments>
507c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate
517c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate<class>, <subclass>, <vendor> or <publisher> may be "-" to
527c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gatematch any class, subclass, vendor or publisher, respectively.
537c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate
547c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate<user> may be "-" for commands to be invoked as root, or a
557c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gatevalid user name.
567c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate
577c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate<reserved1> and <reserved2> must be "-".
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597c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate<path> must be the path of the command to be invoked in response
607c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gateto the event, and must be executable by <user>.
617c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate
627c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate<arguments> are optional, and may be any arbitrary arguments
637c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gatefor the command to be invoked.  Macros may be used to substitute
647c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gateactual parameters from the matching event on the command line.
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